Uploading new firmware to a Makey Makey v1.2 with Arduino 1.8.10 on a Raspberry Pi 3

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I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 3 and I’ve installed Arduino 1.8.10. When I hook up my Makey Makey v1.2 to a USB port with left-right and up-down wired for programming, it sends the string “mm v1.20ac”. So far so good.

In Arduino, I’ve installed the Sparkfun AVR board and selected Makey Makey.

The only serial port I’m seeing in Arduino, even when I launch it with sudo, is /dev/ttyAMA0, which I think is Bluetooth serial on a Raspberry Pi 3.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is it already known that this combination won’t work in order to upload custom firmware?

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Hi Eulexia

The Makey Makey v1.2 is not Arduino based and you can not change the firmware in it with Arduino.

All you’re able to do is remap what keys it sends with the [Makey Makey key remap utility.

[Older versions of the Makey Makey used an AVR processor that was Arduino compatible but the new v1.2 is PIC based and you can’t change the firmware. (At lest not with Arduino anyway.)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/11511)](https://makeymakey.com/pages/remap)